David Walsh Blog

• By David WalshSeptember 27, 2016

  JavaScript Speech Recognition

  Speech recognition software is becoming more and more important; it started (for me) with Siri on iOS, then Amazon's Echo, then my new Apple TV, and so on.  Speech recognition is so useful for not just us tech superstars but for people who either want to work "hands...

• By David WalshSeptember 26, 2016

  httpstat: Simple cURL Stats

  There are a lot of tools out there that do great, advanced things but present them as well as they could be presented.  I wont knock cURL for anything -- it's an amazing tool many of us can't live without;  what I will say, however, is that...

• By David WalshSeptember 21, 2016

  Canvas Filters

  Adding filters to images can make them more eye-catching and shareable -- just ask Instagram, Snapchat, Prism, and every other app out there.  A few years back we got the awesome CSS filters feature, allowing us to use a fixed set of filter methods to make our photos...

• By David WalshSeptember 15, 2016

  One Week of Vive

  If you've been following me on Twitter, you'll notice that I've very recently taken to virtual reality.  Headsets like Oculus Rift, Samsung GearVR, Playstation's VR effort, and HTC Vive have just hit the consumer market and so now is a good time for developers to start experiencing...

• By David WalshSeptember 12, 2016

  Override Default Properties with JavaScript

  Unit testing with client side JavaScript is something you don't do until you're made to.  Of course unit testing is important but let's be honest:  most people are just happy that their code works, right?  Anyways, fast forward to a world where unit testing is normal and we have...

• By Kris ZypSeptember 12, 2016

  Modernization of Reactivity

  Reactive programming has taken JavaScript by storm over the last decade, and for good reason; front-end development greatly benefits from the simplicity of writing user interface code that "reacts" to data changes, eliminating substantial error-prone imperative code tasked with updating UIs. However, while the popularity has...

• By Ado KukicSeptember 6, 2016

  Building Ambitious Web Applications with Ember.js

  Ember.js is a solid single page application framework for building modern web applications.Before Angular and React reached critical mass, Ember.js was leading the charge in building scalable single page applications. While the spotlight may have shifted, Ember.js remains a great and viable option...

• By David WalshSeptember 4, 2016

  Generate Waveform Images from Audio with Cloudinary

  I've been working a lot with visualizations lately, which is a far cry from your normal webpage element interaction coding; you need advanced geometry knowledge, render and performance knowledge, and much more.  It's been a great learning experience but it can be challenging and isn't always an interest of all web developers.  That's why...

• By David WalshSeptember 1, 2016

  Best 14 Web Tools Reviewed

  The Internet is huge - that's ultimately a truism. But how can you choose from the great pool of information? If you are looking for resources in developing, let us help you. We have a comprehensive list with the latest sites that can let you deal...

• By David WalshAugust 29, 2016

  Get Query String Parameters with JavaScript

  Query string parameters have been incredibly useful on the server side since the internet took liftoff, but it wasn't until AJAX-driven web apps became popular that we relied too much on them on the client side. Not only do we grab parameter values but we also modify...